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The Miscellaneous Writings: Speeches and Poems, 4 volume set
by Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No DJs
- Seller
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Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Complete in 4 volumes. Half dark brown calf leather over brown marbled paper (Spanish Pattern, moire type); spines with 5 raised bands, gilt stamped on bands with fine guilloche motif and in panels with titles and floral and tendril designs; top edges gilt; end papers of matching marbled pattern. Bright, clean covers and spines; leather remains supple; slight rubbing wear at some fore corners; tightly bound; each volume with owner bookplate on front pastedown 'Ellen Mudge Butler'; bright, clean interiors; all vols with many leaves unopened at fore edges - never been read. 12mo, 1820 total pp; paged 443, 480, 476, 421. Index in vol 4. Cf, OCLC #9592699. Owner Butler was mother-in-law of Ellsworth Bunker. From the collection of Ellsworth Bunker (U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, Italy, India, Nepal, South Vietnam, Organization of American States, and twice recipient of U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom).
Details
- Bookseller
- Madden Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M00494
- Title
- The Miscellaneous Writings: Speeches and Poems, 4 volume set
- Author
- Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No DJs
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Longmans, Green and Co.
- Date Published
- 1880
- Keywords
- ENGLAND, ENGLISH, BRITISH, SCOTLAND, PARLIAMENT, GLADSTONE, GOVERNMENT, PEERS, ELITES, COMMONS, CHURCH, VERSE, POEMS
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Madden Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Madden Books
Biblio member since 2011
Brattleboro, Vermont
About Madden Books
I am a book collector and seller with many years experience. My particular areas of interest are politics, history, law, economics, labor and sociology. I also collect and sell Vermont and New England books, pamphlets, ephemera and magazines. I have a large selection of mysteries and detective books. I have general stock of literature, sciences, arts, world and regional politics & history.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
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